The Federal Ministry for Education and Research sponsors a graduate studies research group in religion on the topic of “Contemporary Muslim Cultures” at Bayreuth University in cooperation with the new research groups at the Department for Islamic Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Department für Islamisch-Religiöse Studien an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). The research group started work in April 2014.